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// Copyright 2019 The Go Authors. All rights reserved.
// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style
// license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
// Scavenging free pages.
//
// This file implements scavenging (the release of physical pages backing mapped
// memory) of free and unused pages in the heap as a way to deal with page-level
// fragmentation and reduce the RSS of Go applications.
//
// Scavenging in Go happens on two fronts: there's the background
// (asynchronous) scavenger and the heap-growth (synchronous) scavenger.
//
// The former happens on a goroutine much like the background sweeper which is
// soft-capped at using scavengePercent of the mutator's time, based on
// order-of-magnitude estimates of the costs of scavenging. The background
// scavenger's primary goal is to bring the estimated heap RSS of the
// application down to a goal.
//
// Before we consider what this looks like, we need to split the world into two
// halves. One in which a memory limit is not set, and one in which it is.
//
// For the former, the goal is defined as:
// (retainExtraPercent+100) / 100 * (heapGoal / lastHeapGoal) * lastHeapInUse
//
// Essentially, we wish to have the application's RSS track the heap goal, but
// the heap goal is defined in terms of bytes of objects, rather than pages like
// RSS. As a result, we need to take into account for fragmentation internal to
// spans. heapGoal / lastHeapGoal defines the ratio between the current heap goal
// and the last heap goal, which tells us by how much the heap is growing and
// shrinking. We estimate what the heap will grow to in terms of pages by taking
// this ratio and multiplying it by heapInUse at the end of the last GC, which
// allows us to account for this additional fragmentation. Note that this
// procedure makes the assumption that the degree of fragmentation won't change
// dramatically over the next GC cycle. Overestimating the amount of
// fragmentation simply results in higher memory use, which will be accounted
// for by the next pacing up date. Underestimating the fragmentation however
// could lead to performance degradation. Handling this case is not within the
// scope of the scavenger. Situations where the amount of fragmentation balloons
// over the course of a single GC cycle should be considered pathologies,
// flagged as bugs, and fixed appropriately.
//
// An additional factor of retainExtraPercent is added as a buffer to help ensure
// that there's more unscavenged memory to allocate out of, since each allocation
// out of scavenged memory incurs a potentially expensive page fault.
//
// If a memory limit is set, then we wish to pick a scavenge goal that maintains
// that memory limit. For that, we look at total memory that has been committed
// (memstats.mappedReady) and try to bring that down below the limit. In this case,
// we want to give buffer space in the *opposite* direction. When the application
// is close to the limit, we want to make sure we push harder to keep it under, so
// if we target below the memory limit, we ensure that the background scavenger is
// giving the situation the urgency it deserves.
//
// In this case, the goal is defined as:
// (100-reduceExtraPercent) / 100 * memoryLimit
//
// We compute both of these goals, and check whether either of them have been met.
// The background scavenger continues operating as long as either one of the goals
// has not been met.
//
// The goals are updated after each GC.
//
// The synchronous heap-growth scavenging happens whenever the heap grows in
// size, for some definition of heap-growth. The intuition behind this is that
// the application had to grow the heap because existing fragments were
// not sufficiently large to satisfy a page-level memory allocation, so we
// scavenge those fragments eagerly to offset the growth in RSS that results.
package runtime
import (
"internal/goos"
"runtime/internal/atomic"
"runtime/internal/sys"
"unsafe"
)
const (
// The background scavenger is paced according to these parameters.
//
// scavengePercent represents the portion of mutator time we're willing
// to spend on scavenging in percent.
scavengePercent = 1 // 1%
// retainExtraPercent represents the amount of memory over the heap goal
// that the scavenger should keep as a buffer space for the allocator.
// This constant is used when we do not have a memory limit set.
//
// The purpose of maintaining this overhead is to have a greater pool of
// unscavenged memory available for allocation (since using scavenged memory
// incurs an additional cost), to account for heap fragmentation and
// the ever-changing layout of the heap.
retainExtraPercent = 10
// reduceExtraPercent represents the amount of memory under the limit
// that the scavenger should target. For example, 5 means we target 95%
// of the limit.
//
// The purpose of shooting lower than the limit is to ensure that, once
// close to the limit, the scavenger is working hard to maintain it. If
// we have a memory limit set but are far away from it, there's no harm
// in leaving up to 100-retainExtraPercent live, and it's more efficient
// anyway, for the same reasons that retainExtraPercent exists.
reduceExtraPercent = 5
// maxPagesPerPhysPage is the maximum number of supported runtime pages per
// physical page, based on maxPhysPageSize.
maxPagesPerPhysPage = maxPhysPageSize / pageSize
// scavengeCostRatio is the approximate ratio between the costs of using previously
// scavenged memory and scavenging memory.
//
// For most systems the cost of scavenging greatly outweighs the costs
// associated with using scavenged memory, making this constant 0. On other systems
// (especially ones where "sysUsed" is not just a no-op) this cost is non-trivial.
//
// This ratio is used as part of multiplicative factor to help the scavenger account
// for the additional costs of using scavenged memory in its pacing.
scavengeCostRatio = 0.7 * (goos.IsDarwin + goos.IsIos)
)
// heapRetained returns an estimate of the current heap RSS.
func heapRetained() uint64 {
return gcController.heapInUse.load() + gcController.heapFree.load()
}
// gcPaceScavenger updates the scavenger's pacing, particularly
// its rate and RSS goal. For this, it requires the current heapGoal,
// and the heapGoal for the previous GC cycle.
//
// The RSS goal is based on the current heap goal with a small overhead
// to accommodate non-determinism in the allocator.
//
// The pacing is based on scavengePageRate, which applies to both regular and
// huge pages. See that constant for more information.
//
// Must be called whenever GC pacing is updated.
//
// mheap_.lock must be held or the world must be stopped.
func gcPaceScavenger(memoryLimit int64, heapGoal, lastHeapGoal uint64) {
assertWorldStoppedOrLockHeld(&mheap_.lock)
// As described at the top of this file, there are two scavenge goals here: one
// for gcPercent and one for memoryLimit. Let's handle the latter first because
// it's simpler.
// We want to target retaining (100-reduceExtraPercent)% of the heap.
memoryLimitGoal := uint64(float64(memoryLimit) * (100.0 - reduceExtraPercent))
// mappedReady is comparable to memoryLimit, and represents how much total memory
// the Go runtime has committed now (estimated).
mappedReady := gcController.mappedReady.Load()
// If we're below the goal already indicate that we don't need the background
// scavenger for the memory limit. This may seems worrisome at first, but note
// that the allocator will assist the background scavenger in the face of a memory
// limit, so we'll be safe even if we stop the scavenger when we shouldn't have.
if mappedReady <= memoryLimitGoal {
scavenge.memoryLimitGoal.Store(^uint64(0))
} else {
scavenge.memoryLimitGoal.Store(memoryLimitGoal)
}
// Now handle the gcPercent goal.
// If we're called before the first GC completed, disable scavenging.
// We never scavenge before the 2nd GC cycle anyway (we don't have enough
// information about the heap yet) so this is fine, and avoids a fault
// or garbage data later.
if lastHeapGoal == 0 {
scavenge.gcPercentGoal.Store(^uint64(0))
return
}
// Compute our scavenging goal.
goalRatio := float64(heapGoal) / float64(lastHeapGoal)
gcPercentGoal := uint64(float64(memstats.lastHeapInUse) * goalRatio)
// Add retainExtraPercent overhead to retainedGoal. This calculation
// looks strange but the purpose is to arrive at an integer division
// (e.g. if retainExtraPercent = 12.5, then we get a divisor of 8)
// that also avoids the overflow from a multiplication.
gcPercentGoal += gcPercentGoal / (1.0 / (retainExtraPercent / 100.0))
// Align it to a physical page boundary to make the following calculations
// a bit more exact.
gcPercentGoal = (gcPercentGoal + uint64(physPageSize) - 1) &^ (uint64(physPageSize) - 1)
// Represents where we are now in the heap's contribution to RSS in bytes.
//
// Guaranteed to always be a multiple of physPageSize on systems where
// physPageSize <= pageSize since we map new heap memory at a size larger than
// any physPageSize and released memory in multiples of the physPageSize.
//
// However, certain functions recategorize heap memory as other stats (e.g.
// stacks) and this happens in multiples of pageSize, so on systems
// where physPageSize > pageSize the calculations below will not be exact.
// Generally this is OK since we'll be off by at most one regular
// physical page.
heapRetainedNow := heapRetained()
// If we're already below our goal, or within one page of our goal, then indicate
// that we don't need the background scavenger for maintaining a memory overhead
// proportional to the heap goal.
if heapRetainedNow <= gcPercentGoal || heapRetainedNow-gcPercentGoal < uint64(physPageSize) {
scavenge.gcPercentGoal.Store(^uint64(0))
} else {
scavenge.gcPercentGoal.Store(gcPercentGoal)
}
}
var scavenge struct {
// gcPercentGoal is the amount of retained heap memory (measured by
// heapRetained) that the runtime will try to maintain by returning
// memory to the OS. This goal is derived from gcController.gcPercent
// by choosing to retain enough memory to allocate heap memory up to
// the heap goal.
gcPercentGoal atomic.Uint64
// memoryLimitGoal is the amount of memory retained by the runtime (
// measured by gcController.mappedReady) that the runtime will try to
// maintain by returning memory to the OS. This goal is derived from
// gcController.memoryLimit by choosing to target the memory limit or
// some lower target to keep the scavenger working.
memoryLimitGoal atomic.Uint64
// assistTime is the time spent by the allocator scavenging in the last GC cycle.
//
// This is reset once a GC cycle ends.
assistTime atomic.Int64
// backgroundTime is the time spent by the background scavenger in the last GC cycle.
//
// This is reset once a GC cycle ends.
backgroundTime atomic.Int64
}
const (
// It doesn't really matter what value we start at, but we can't be zero, because
// that'll cause divide-by-zero issues. Pick something conservative which we'll
// also use as a fallback.
startingScavSleepRatio = 0.001
// Spend at least 1 ms scavenging, otherwise the corresponding
// sleep time to maintain our desired utilization is too low to
// be reliable.
minScavWorkTime = 1e6
)
// Sleep/wait state of the background scavenger.
var scavenger scavengerState
type scavengerState struct {
// lock protects all fields below.
lock mutex
// g is the goroutine the scavenger is bound to.
g *g
// parked is whether or not the scavenger is parked.
parked bool
// timer is the timer used for the scavenger to sleep.
timer *timer
// sysmonWake signals to sysmon that it should wake the scavenger.
sysmonWake atomic.Uint32
// targetCPUFraction is the target CPU overhead for the scavenger.
targetCPUFraction float64
// sleepRatio is the ratio of time spent doing scavenging work to
// time spent sleeping. This is used to decide how long the scavenger
// should sleep for in between batches of work. It is set by
// critSleepController in order to maintain a CPU overhead of
// targetCPUFraction.
//
// Lower means more sleep, higher means more aggressive scavenging.
sleepRatio float64
// sleepController controls sleepRatio.
//
// See sleepRatio for more details.
sleepController piController
// cooldown is the time left in nanoseconds during which we avoid
// using the controller and we hold sleepRatio at a conservative
// value. Used if the controller's assumptions fail to hold.
controllerCooldown int64
// printControllerReset instructs printScavTrace to signal that
// the controller was reset.
printControllerReset bool
// sleepStub is a stub used for testing to avoid actually having
// the scavenger sleep.
//
// Unlike the other stubs, this is not populated if left nil
// Instead, it is called when non-nil because any valid implementation
// of this function basically requires closing over this scavenger
// state, and allocating a closure is not allowed in the runtime as
// a matter of policy.
sleepStub func(n int64) int64
// scavenge is a function that scavenges n bytes of memory.
// Returns how many bytes of memory it actually scavenged, as
// well as the time it took in nanoseconds. Usually mheap.pages.scavenge
// with nanotime called around it, but stubbed out for testing.
// Like mheap.pages.scavenge, if it scavenges less than n bytes of
// memory, the caller may assume the heap is exhausted of scavengable
// memory for now.
//
// If this is nil, it is populated with the real thing in init.
scavenge func(n uintptr) (uintptr, int64)
// shouldStop is a callback called in the work loop and provides a
// point that can force the scavenger to stop early, for example because
// the scavenge policy dictates too much has been scavenged already.
//
// If this is nil, it is populated with the real thing in init.
shouldStop func() bool
// gomaxprocs returns the current value of gomaxprocs. Stub for testing.
//
// If this is nil, it is populated with the real thing in init.
gomaxprocs func() int32
}
// init initializes a scavenger state and wires to the current G.
//
// Must be called from a regular goroutine that can allocate.
func (s *scavengerState) init() {
if s.g != nil {
throw("scavenger state is already wired")
}
lockInit(&s.lock, lockRankScavenge)
s.g = getg()
s.timer = new(timer)
s.timer.arg = s
s.timer.f = func(s any, _ uintptr) {
s.(*scavengerState).wake()
}
// input: fraction of CPU time actually used.
// setpoint: ideal CPU fraction.
// output: ratio of time worked to time slept (determines sleep time).
//
// The output of this controller is somewhat indirect to what we actually
// want to achieve: how much time to sleep for. The reason for this definition
// is to ensure that the controller's outputs have a direct relationship with
// its inputs (as opposed to an inverse relationship), making it somewhat
// easier to reason about for tuning purposes.
s.sleepController = piController{
// Tuned loosely via Ziegler-Nichols process.
kp: 0.3375,
ti: 3.2e6,
tt: 1e9, // 1 second reset time.
// These ranges seem wide, but we want to give the controller plenty of
// room to hunt for the optimal value.
min: 0.001, // 1:1000
max: 1000.0, // 1000:1
}
s.sleepRatio = startingScavSleepRatio
// Install real functions if stubs aren't present.
if s.scavenge == nil {
s.scavenge = func(n uintptr) (uintptr, int64) {
start := nanotime()
r := mheap_.pages.scavenge(n, nil)
end := nanotime()
if start >= end {
return r, 0
}
scavenge.backgroundTime.Add(end - start)
return r, end - start
}
}
if s.shouldStop == nil {
s.shouldStop = func() bool {
// If background scavenging is disabled or if there's no work to do just stop.
return heapRetained() <= scavenge.gcPercentGoal.Load() &&
(!go119MemoryLimitSupport ||
gcController.mappedReady.Load() <= scavenge.memoryLimitGoal.Load())
}
}
if s.gomaxprocs == nil {
s.gomaxprocs = func() int32 {
return gomaxprocs
}
}
}
// park parks the scavenger goroutine.
func (s *scavengerState) park() {
lock(&s.lock)
if getg() != s.g {
throw("tried to park scavenger from another goroutine")
}
s.parked = true
goparkunlock(&s.lock, waitReasonGCScavengeWait, traceEvGoBlock, 2)
}
// ready signals to sysmon that the scavenger should be awoken.
func (s *scavengerState) ready() {
s.sysmonWake.Store(1)
}
// wake immediately unparks the scavenger if necessary.
//
// Safe to run without a P.
func (s *scavengerState) wake() {
lock(&s.lock)
if s.parked {
// Unset sysmonWake, since the scavenger is now being awoken.
s.sysmonWake.Store(0)
// s.parked is unset to prevent a double wake-up.
s.parked = false
// Ready the goroutine by injecting it. We use injectglist instead
// of ready or goready in order to allow us to run this function
// without a P. injectglist also avoids placing the goroutine in
// the current P's runnext slot, which is desirable to prevent
// the scavenger from interfering with user goroutine scheduling
// too much.
var list gList
list.push(s.g)
injectglist(&list)
}
unlock(&s.lock)
}
// sleep puts the scavenger to sleep based on the amount of time that it worked
// in nanoseconds.
//
// Note that this function should only be called by the scavenger.
//
// The scavenger may be woken up earlier by a pacing change, and it may not go
// to sleep at all if there's a pending pacing change.
func (s *scavengerState) sleep(worked float64) {
lock(&s.lock)
if getg() != s.g {
throw("tried to sleep scavenger from another goroutine")
}
if worked < minScavWorkTime {
// This means there wasn't enough work to actually fill up minScavWorkTime.
// That's fine; we shouldn't try to do anything with this information
// because it's going result in a short enough sleep request that things
// will get messy. Just assume we did at least this much work.
// All this means is that we'll sleep longer than we otherwise would have.
worked = minScavWorkTime
}
// Multiply the critical time by 1 + the ratio of the costs of using
// scavenged memory vs. scavenging memory. This forces us to pay down
// the cost of reusing this memory eagerly by sleeping for a longer period
// of time and scavenging less frequently. More concretely, we avoid situations
// where we end up scavenging so often that we hurt allocation performance
// because of the additional overheads of using scavenged memory.
worked *= 1 + scavengeCostRatio
// sleepTime is the amount of time we're going to sleep, based on the amount
// of time we worked, and the sleepRatio.
sleepTime := int64(worked / s.sleepRatio)
var slept int64
if s.sleepStub == nil {
// Set the timer.
//
// This must happen here instead of inside gopark
// because we can't close over any variables without
// failing escape analysis.
start := nanotime()
resetTimer(s.timer, start+sleepTime)
// Mark ourselves as asleep and go to sleep.
s.parked = true
goparkunlock(&s.lock, waitReasonSleep, traceEvGoSleep, 2)
// How long we actually slept for.
slept = nanotime() - start
lock(&s.lock)
// Stop the timer here because s.wake is unable to do it for us.
// We don't really care if we succeed in stopping the timer. One
// reason we might fail is that we've already woken up, but the timer
// might be in the process of firing on some other P; essentially we're
// racing with it. That's totally OK. Double wake-ups are perfectly safe.
stopTimer(s.timer)
unlock(&s.lock)
} else {
unlock(&s.lock)
slept = s.sleepStub(sleepTime)
}
// Stop here if we're cooling down from the controller.
if s.controllerCooldown > 0 {
// worked and slept aren't exact measures of time, but it's OK to be a bit
// sloppy here. We're just hoping we're avoiding some transient bad behavior.
t := slept + int64(worked)
if t > s.controllerCooldown {
s.controllerCooldown = 0
} else {
s.controllerCooldown -= t
}
return
}
// idealFraction is the ideal % of overall application CPU time that we
// spend scavenging.
idealFraction := float64(scavengePercent) / 100.0
// Calculate the CPU time spent.
//
// This may be slightly inaccurate with respect to GOMAXPROCS, but we're
// recomputing this often enough relative to GOMAXPROCS changes in general
// (it only changes when the world is stopped, and not during a GC) that
// that small inaccuracy is in the noise.
cpuFraction := worked / ((float64(slept) + worked) * float64(s.gomaxprocs()))
// Update the critSleepRatio, adjusting until we reach our ideal fraction.
var ok bool
s.sleepRatio, ok = s.sleepController.next(cpuFraction, idealFraction, float64(slept)+worked)
if !ok {
// The core assumption of the controller, that we can get a proportional
// response, broke down. This may be transient, so temporarily switch to
// sleeping a fixed, conservative amount.
s.sleepRatio = startingScavSleepRatio
s.controllerCooldown = 5e9 // 5 seconds.
// Signal the scav trace printer to output this.
s.controllerFailed()
}
}
// controllerFailed indicates that the scavenger's scheduling
// controller failed.
func (s *scavengerState) controllerFailed() {
lock(&s.lock)
s.printControllerReset = true
unlock(&s.lock)
}
// run is the body of the main scavenging loop.
//
// Returns the number of bytes released and the estimated time spent
// releasing those bytes.
//
// Must be run on the scavenger goroutine.
func (s *scavengerState) run() (released uintptr, worked float64) {
lock(&s.lock)
if getg() != s.g {
throw("tried to run scavenger from another goroutine")
}
unlock(&s.lock)
for worked < minScavWorkTime {
// If something from outside tells us to stop early, stop.
if s.shouldStop() {
break
}
// scavengeQuantum is the amount of memory we try to scavenge
// in one go. A smaller value means the scavenger is more responsive
// to the scheduler in case of e.g. preemption. A larger value means
// that the overheads of scavenging are better amortized, so better
// scavenging throughput.
//
// The current value is chosen assuming a cost of ~10µs/physical page
// (this is somewhat pessimistic), which implies a worst-case latency of
// about 160µs for 4 KiB physical pages. The current value is biased
// toward latency over throughput.
const scavengeQuantum = 64 << 10
// Accumulate the amount of time spent scavenging.
r, duration := s.scavenge(scavengeQuantum)
// On some platforms we may see end >= start if the time it takes to scavenge
// memory is less than the minimum granularity of its clock (e.g. Windows) or
// due to clock bugs.
//
// In this case, just assume scavenging takes 10 µs per regular physical page
// (determined empirically), and conservatively ignore the impact of huge pages
// on timing.
const approxWorkedNSPerPhysicalPage = 10e3
if duration == 0 {
worked += approxWorkedNSPerPhysicalPage * float64(r/physPageSize)
} else {
// TODO(mknyszek): If duration is small compared to worked, it could be
// rounded down to zero. Probably not a problem in practice because the
// values are all within a few orders of magnitude of each other but maybe
// worth worrying about.
worked += float64(duration)
}
released += r
// scavenge does not return until it either finds the requisite amount of
// memory to scavenge, or exhausts the heap. If we haven't found enough
// to scavenge, then the heap must be exhausted.
if r < scavengeQuantum {
break
}
// When using fake time just do one loop.
if faketime != 0 {
break
}
}
if released > 0 && released < physPageSize {
// If this happens, it means that we may have attempted to release part
// of a physical page, but the likely effect of that is that it released
// the whole physical page, some of which may have still been in-use.
// This could lead to memory corruption. Throw.
throw("released less than one physical page of memory")
}
return
}
// Background scavenger.
//
// The background scavenger maintains the RSS of the application below
// the line described by the proportional scavenging statistics in
// the mheap struct.
func bgscavenge(c chan int) {
scavenger.init()
c <- 1
scavenger.park()
for {
released, workTime := scavenger.run()
if released == 0 {
scavenger.park()
continue
}
atomic.Xadduintptr(&mheap_.pages.scav.released, released)
scavenger.sleep(workTime)
}
}
// scavenge scavenges nbytes worth of free pages, starting with the
// highest address first. Successive calls continue from where it left
// off until the heap is exhausted. Call scavengeStartGen to bring it
// back to the top of the heap.
//
// Returns the amount of memory scavenged in bytes.
//
// scavenge always tries to scavenge nbytes worth of memory, and will
// only fail to do so if the heap is exhausted for now.
func (p *pageAlloc) scavenge(nbytes uintptr, shouldStop func() bool) uintptr {
released := uintptr(0)
for released < nbytes {
ci, pageIdx := p.scav.index.find()
if ci == 0 {
break
}
systemstack(func() {
released += p.scavengeOne(ci, pageIdx, nbytes-released)
})
if shouldStop != nil && shouldStop() {
break
}
}
return released
}
// printScavTrace prints a scavenge trace line to standard error.
//
// released should be the amount of memory released since the last time this
// was called, and forced indicates whether the scavenge was forced by the
// application.
//
// scavenger.lock must be held.
func printScavTrace(released uintptr, forced bool) {
assertLockHeld(&scavenger.lock)
printlock()
print("scav ",
released>>10, " KiB work, ",
gcController.heapReleased.load()>>10, " KiB total, ",
(gcController.heapInUse.load()*100)/heapRetained(), "% util",
)
if forced {
print(" (forced)")
} else if scavenger.printControllerReset {
print(" [controller reset]")
scavenger.printControllerReset = false
}
println()
printunlock()
}
// scavengeOne walks over the chunk at chunk index ci and searches for
// a contiguous run of pages to scavenge. It will try to scavenge
// at most max bytes at once, but may scavenge more to avoid
// breaking huge pages. Once it scavenges some memory it returns
// how much it scavenged in bytes.
//
// searchIdx is the page index to start searching from in ci.
//
// Returns the number of bytes scavenged.
//
// Must run on the systemstack because it acquires p.mheapLock.
//
//go:systemstack
func (p *pageAlloc) scavengeOne(ci chunkIdx, searchIdx uint, max uintptr) uintptr {
// Calculate the maximum number of pages to scavenge.
//
// This should be alignUp(max, pageSize) / pageSize but max can and will
// be ^uintptr(0), so we need to be very careful not to overflow here.
// Rather than use alignUp, calculate the number of pages rounded down
// first, then add back one if necessary.
maxPages := max / pageSize
if max%pageSize != 0 {
maxPages++
}
// Calculate the minimum number of pages we can scavenge.
//
// Because we can only scavenge whole physical pages, we must
// ensure that we scavenge at least minPages each time, aligned
// to minPages*pageSize.
minPages := physPageSize / pageSize
if minPages < 1 {
minPages = 1
}
lock(p.mheapLock)
if p.summary[len(p.summary)-1][ci].max() >= uint(minPages) {
// We only bother looking for a candidate if there at least
// minPages free pages at all.
base, npages := p.chunkOf(ci).findScavengeCandidate(searchIdx, minPages, maxPages)
// If we found something, scavenge it and return!
if npages != 0 {
// Compute the full address for the start of the range.
addr := chunkBase(ci) + uintptr(base)*pageSize
// Mark the range we're about to scavenge as allocated, because
// we don't want any allocating goroutines to grab it while
// the scavenging is in progress.
if scav := p.allocRange(addr, uintptr(npages)); scav != 0 {
throw("double scavenge")
}
// With that done, it's safe to unlock.
unlock(p.mheapLock)
if !p.test {
// Only perform the actual scavenging if we're not in a test.
// It's dangerous to do so otherwise.
sysUnused(unsafe.Pointer(addr), uintptr(npages)*pageSize)
// Update global accounting only when not in test, otherwise
// the runtime's accounting will be wrong.
nbytes := int64(npages) * pageSize
gcController.heapReleased.add(nbytes)
gcController.heapFree.add(-nbytes)
stats := memstats.heapStats.acquire()
atomic.Xaddint64(&stats.committed, -nbytes)
atomic.Xaddint64(&stats.released, nbytes)
memstats.heapStats.release()
}
// Relock the heap, because now we need to make these pages
// available allocation. Free them back to the page allocator.
lock(p.mheapLock)
p.free(addr, uintptr(npages), true)
// Mark the range as scavenged.
p.chunkOf(ci).scavenged.setRange(base, npages)
unlock(p.mheapLock)
return uintptr(npages) * pageSize
}
}
// Mark this chunk as having no free pages.
p.scav.index.clear(ci)
unlock(p.mheapLock)
return 0
}
// fillAligned returns x but with all zeroes in m-aligned
// groups of m bits set to 1 if any bit in the group is non-zero.
//
// For example, fillAligned(0x0100a3, 8) == 0xff00ff.
//
// Note that if m == 1, this is a no-op.
//
// m must be a power of 2 <= maxPagesPerPhysPage.
func fillAligned(x uint64, m uint) uint64 {
apply := func(x uint64, c uint64) uint64 {
// The technique used it here is derived from
// https://graphics.stanford.edu/~seander/bithacks.html#ZeroInWord
// and extended for more than just bytes (like nibbles
// and uint16s) by using an appropriate constant.
//
// To summarize the technique, quoting from that page:
// "[It] works by first zeroing the high bits of the [8]
// bytes in the word. Subsequently, it adds a number that
// will result in an overflow to the high bit of a byte if
// any of the low bits were initially set. Next the high
// bits of the original word are ORed with these values;
// thus, the high bit of a byte is set iff any bit in the
// byte was set. Finally, we determine if any of these high
// bits are zero by ORing with ones everywhere except the
// high bits and inverting the result."
return ^((((x & c) + c) | x) | c)
}
// Transform x to contain a 1 bit at the top of each m-aligned
// group of m zero bits.
switch m {
case 1:
return x
case 2:
x = apply(x, 0x5555555555555555)
case 4:
x = apply(x, 0x7777777777777777)
case 8:
x = apply(x, 0x7f7f7f7f7f7f7f7f)
case 16:
x = apply(x, 0x7fff7fff7fff7fff)
case 32:
x = apply(x, 0x7fffffff7fffffff)
case 64: // == maxPagesPerPhysPage
x = apply(x, 0x7fffffffffffffff)
default:
throw("bad m value")
}
// Now, the top bit of each m-aligned group in x is set
// that group was all zero in the original x.
// From each group of m bits subtract 1.
// Because we know only the top bits of each
// m-aligned group are set, we know this will
// set each group to have all the bits set except
// the top bit, so just OR with the original
// result to set all the bits.
return ^((x - (x >> (m - 1))) | x)
}
// findScavengeCandidate returns a start index and a size for this pallocData
// segment which represents a contiguous region of free and unscavenged memory.
//
// searchIdx indicates the page index within this chunk to start the search, but
// note that findScavengeCandidate searches backwards through the pallocData. As a
// a result, it will return the highest scavenge candidate in address order.
//
// min indicates a hard minimum size and alignment for runs of pages. That is,
// findScavengeCandidate will not return a region smaller than min pages in size,
// or that is min pages or greater in size but not aligned to min. min must be
// a non-zero power of 2 <= maxPagesPerPhysPage.
//
// max is a hint for how big of a region is desired. If max >= pallocChunkPages, then
// findScavengeCandidate effectively returns entire free and unscavenged regions.
// If max < pallocChunkPages, it may truncate the returned region such that size is
// max. However, findScavengeCandidate may still return a larger region if, for
// example, it chooses to preserve huge pages, or if max is not aligned to min (it
// will round up). That is, even if max is small, the returned size is not guaranteed
// to be equal to max. max is allowed to be less than min, in which case it is as if
// max == min.
func (m *pallocData) findScavengeCandidate(searchIdx uint, min, max uintptr) (uint, uint) {
if min&(min-1) != 0 || min == 0 {
print("runtime: min = ", min, "\n")
throw("min must be a non-zero power of 2")
} else if min > maxPagesPerPhysPage {
print("runtime: min = ", min, "\n")
throw("min too large")
}
// max may not be min-aligned, so we might accidentally truncate to
// a max value which causes us to return a non-min-aligned value.
// To prevent this, align max up to a multiple of min (which is always
// a power of 2). This also prevents max from ever being less than
// min, unless it's zero, so handle that explicitly.
if max == 0 {
max = min
} else {
max = alignUp(max, min)
}
i := int(searchIdx / 64)
// Start by quickly skipping over blocks of non-free or scavenged pages.
for ; i >= 0; i-- {
// 1s are scavenged OR non-free => 0s are unscavenged AND free
x := fillAligned(m.scavenged[i]|m.pallocBits[i], uint(min))
if x != ^uint64(0) {
break
}
}
if i < 0 {
// Failed to find any free/unscavenged pages.
return 0, 0
}
// We have something in the 64-bit chunk at i, but it could
// extend further. Loop until we find the extent of it.
// 1s are scavenged OR non-free => 0s are unscavenged AND free
x := fillAligned(m.scavenged[i]|m.pallocBits[i], uint(min))
z1 := uint(sys.LeadingZeros64(^x))
run, end := uint(0), uint(i)*64+(64-z1)
if x<<z1 != 0 {
// After shifting out z1 bits, we still have 1s,
// so the run ends inside this word.
run = uint(sys.LeadingZeros64(x << z1))
} else {
// After shifting out z1 bits, we have no more 1s.
// This means the run extends to the bottom of the
// word so it may extend into further words.
run = 64 - z1
for j := i - 1; j >= 0; j-- {
x := fillAligned(m.scavenged[j]|m.pallocBits[j], uint(min))
run += uint(sys.LeadingZeros64(x))
if x != 0 {
// The run stopped in this word.
break
}
}
}
// Split the run we found if it's larger than max but hold on to
// our original length, since we may need it later.
size := run
if size > uint(max) {
size = uint(max)
}
start := end - size
// Each huge page is guaranteed to fit in a single palloc chunk.
//
// TODO(mknyszek): Support larger huge page sizes.
// TODO(mknyszek): Consider taking pages-per-huge-page as a parameter
// so we can write tests for this.
if physHugePageSize > pageSize && physHugePageSize > physPageSize {
// We have huge pages, so let's ensure we don't break one by scavenging
// over a huge page boundary. If the range [start, start+size) overlaps with
// a free-and-unscavenged huge page, we want to grow the region we scavenge
// to include that huge page.
// Compute the huge page boundary above our candidate.
pagesPerHugePage := uintptr(physHugePageSize / pageSize)
hugePageAbove := uint(alignUp(uintptr(start), pagesPerHugePage))
// If that boundary is within our current candidate, then we may be breaking
// a huge page.
if hugePageAbove <= end {
// Compute the huge page boundary below our candidate.
hugePageBelow := uint(alignDown(uintptr(start), pagesPerHugePage))
if hugePageBelow >= end-run {
// We're in danger of breaking apart a huge page since start+size crosses
// a huge page boundary and rounding down start to the nearest huge
// page boundary is included in the full run we found. Include the entire
// huge page in the bound by rounding down to the huge page size.
size = size + (start - hugePageBelow)
start = hugePageBelow
}
}
}
return start, size
}
// scavengeIndex is a structure for efficiently managing which pageAlloc chunks have
// memory available to scavenge.
type scavengeIndex struct {
// chunks is a bitmap representing the entire address space. Each bit represents
// a single chunk, and a 1 value indicates the presence of pages available for
// scavenging. Updates to the bitmap are serialized by the pageAlloc lock.
//
// The underlying storage of chunks is platform dependent and may not even be
// totally mapped read/write. min and max reflect the extent that is safe to access.
// min is inclusive, max is exclusive.
//
// searchAddr is the maximum address (in the offset address space, so we have a linear
// view of the address space; see mranges.go:offAddr) containing memory available to
// scavenge. It is a hint to the find operation to avoid O(n^2) behavior in repeated lookups.
//
// searchAddr is always inclusive and should be the base address of the highest runtime
// page available for scavenging.
//
// searchAddr is managed by both find and mark.
//
// Normally, find monotonically decreases searchAddr as it finds no more free pages to
// scavenge. However, mark, when marking a new chunk at an index greater than the current
// searchAddr, sets searchAddr to the *negative* index into chunks of that page. The trick here
// is that concurrent calls to find will fail to monotonically decrease searchAddr, and so they
// won't barge over new memory becoming available to scavenge. Furthermore, this ensures
// that some future caller of find *must* observe the new high index. That caller
// (or any other racing with it), then makes searchAddr positive before continuing, bringing
// us back to our monotonically decreasing steady-state.
//
// A pageAlloc lock serializes updates between min, max, and searchAddr, so abs(searchAddr)
// is always guaranteed to be >= min and < max (converted to heap addresses).
//
// TODO(mknyszek): Ideally we would use something bigger than a uint8 for faster
// iteration like uint32, but we lack the bit twiddling intrinsics. We'd need to either
// copy them from math/bits or fix the fact that we can't import math/bits' code from
// the runtime due to compiler instrumentation.
searchAddr atomicOffAddr
chunks []atomic.Uint8
minHeapIdx atomic.Int32
min, max atomic.Int32
}
// find returns the highest chunk index that may contain pages available to scavenge.
// It also returns an offset to start searching in the highest chunk.
func (s *scavengeIndex) find() (chunkIdx, uint) {
searchAddr, marked := s.searchAddr.Load()
if searchAddr == minOffAddr.addr() {
// We got a cleared search addr.
return 0, 0
}
// Starting from searchAddr's chunk, and moving down to minHeapIdx,
// iterate until we find a chunk with pages to scavenge.
min := s.minHeapIdx.Load()
searchChunk := chunkIndex(uintptr(searchAddr))
start := int32(searchChunk / 8)
for i := start; i >= min; i-- {
// Skip over irrelevant address space.
chunks := s.chunks[i].Load()
if chunks == 0 {
continue
}
// Note that we can't have 8 leading zeroes here because
// we necessarily skipped that case. So, what's left is
// an index. If there are no zeroes, we want the 7th
// index, if 1 zero, the 6th, and so on.
n := 7 - sys.LeadingZeros8(chunks)
ci := chunkIdx(uint(i)*8 + uint(n))
if searchChunk == ci {
return ci, chunkPageIndex(uintptr(searchAddr))
}
// Try to reduce searchAddr to newSearchAddr.
newSearchAddr := chunkBase(ci) + pallocChunkBytes - pageSize
if marked {
// Attempt to be the first one to decrease the searchAddr
// after an increase. If we fail, that means there was another
// increase, or somebody else got to it before us. Either way,
// it doesn't matter. We may lose some performance having an
// incorrect search address, but it's far more important that
// we don't miss updates.
s.searchAddr.StoreUnmark(searchAddr, newSearchAddr)
} else {
// Decrease searchAddr.
s.searchAddr.StoreMin(newSearchAddr)
}
return ci, pallocChunkPages - 1
}
// Clear searchAddr, because we've exhausted the heap.
s.searchAddr.Clear()
return 0, 0
}
// mark sets the inclusive range of chunks between indices start and end as
// containing pages available to scavenge.
//
// Must be serialized with other mark, markRange, and clear calls.
func (s *scavengeIndex) mark(base, limit uintptr) {
start, end := chunkIndex(base), chunkIndex(limit-pageSize)
if start == end {
// Within a chunk.
mask := uint8(1 << (start % 8))
s.chunks[start/8].Or(mask)
} else if start/8 == end/8 {
// Within the same byte in the index.
mask := uint8(uint16(1<<(end-start+1))-1) << (start % 8)
s.chunks[start/8].Or(mask)
} else {
// Crosses multiple bytes in the index.
startAligned := chunkIdx(alignUp(uintptr(start), 8))
endAligned := chunkIdx(alignDown(uintptr(end), 8))
// Do the end of the first byte first.
if width := startAligned - start; width > 0 {
mask := uint8(uint16(1<<width)-1) << (start % 8)
s.chunks[start/8].Or(mask)
}
// Do the middle aligned sections that take up a whole
// byte.
for ci := startAligned; ci < endAligned; ci += 8 {
s.chunks[ci/8].Store(^uint8(0))
}
// Do the end of the last byte.
//
// This width check doesn't match the one above
// for start because aligning down into the endAligned
// block means we always have at least one chunk in this
// block (note that end is *inclusive*). This also means
// that if end == endAligned+n, then what we really want
// is to fill n+1 chunks, i.e. width n+1. By induction,
// this is true for all n.
if width := end - endAligned + 1; width > 0 {
mask := uint8(uint16(1<<width) - 1)
s.chunks[end/8].Or(mask)
}
}
newSearchAddr := limit - pageSize
searchAddr, _ := s.searchAddr.Load()
// N.B. Because mark is serialized, it's not necessary to do a
// full CAS here. mark only ever increases searchAddr, while
// find only ever decreases it. Since we only ever race with
// decreases, even if the value we loaded is stale, the actual
// value will never be larger.
if (offAddr{searchAddr}).lessThan(offAddr{newSearchAddr}) {
s.searchAddr.StoreMarked(newSearchAddr)
}
}
// clear sets the chunk at index ci as not containing pages available to scavenge.
//
// Must be serialized with other mark, markRange, and clear calls.
func (s *scavengeIndex) clear(ci chunkIdx) {
s.chunks[ci/8].And(^uint8(1 << (ci % 8)))
}